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Topic: when music is painful (Read 5129 times)

I was reading the "end of the world as we know it... I mean end of the album in cd format, etc..." thread and chuckled at the lists of what you can't do with a file (like hanging them from the ceiling in mobile, etc...)

Reminds me of when I accidentally left my copy of Steve Roach - Early Man on the floor. And kicked it.

When that slate ltd edition of Early Man came out, I had these big boxes with 10-12 copies each on the bottom shelf in Hypnos HQ and I kept tripping over them. They weren't just heavy, they were bigger than normal CDs, something like 7" square.

Yes,as I said on my other thread,got the slate version too,put the slate away,put the cd in a sleeve. Bought as a limited collector edition ( guess the slate box) and then the regular version comes out with the second cd,so bought that too.now I got 2 early man CDs exactly the same in two sleeves.though the slate was a cool item no question.

Anybody remember the Aube release "Metal de Metal?" Packaged between two sheets of thin galvanized sheet metal (maybe 30 gauge, high spangle -- is my day job showing through here?) held together with an even thinner, sharper-edged metal clip?

I hated handling that disc. We only sold it briefly, but I owned a personal copy as well. "Risk of severing an artery" should not be a consideration when mulling over which CD to play from your collection.

Not only dangerously sharp, but you had to bend the clip open every time you wanted to play the disc. It was cheap, thin metal so after a few dozen repetitions, it frequently broke. I loved the Manifold label (which I believe was behind this release) but it was a crap package.

By the way, Einleitungszeit is noise industrial project from Slovakia, this is special "handmade" edition from 1999. Trust me, I know what I am talking about and also I still remember blisters on my hands when helping these guys to cut the metal plates for these boxes...

I used to own this one, too. Cool package in the abstract, but a pain to open up, I agree. Kind of reminds me of Durutti Column's infamous sandpaper packaging for its first album, or maybe the vinyl version of PIL's Metal Box. Cool to look at, until you had to open it up to play it.

I have the Aube CD "Seton" which had "stone" as it's sound source and some sort of cement cover. Another one to be treated carefully.

rik had it at the ping things table in the early 2000's and it was pretty irresistible. Alan Bloor (Pholde/Knurl) told me about a CD he got that was packaged between 2 circular saw blades with a bolt though the middle. Careful with that CD Eugene!